“Moral distress,” a precursor to moral injury, was coined in the mid-1980s in reference to nurses who felt they were being obstructed from doing what was morally correct while on the job.

Moral sparring in today’s America pits groups against one another in what New York Times columnist David Brooks calls “primordial sources of meaning that are deeper than individual preference ...

Though moral panics have a long history, the concept was first defined in the 1972 book “Folk Devils and Moral Panics” by the British sociologist Stanley Cohen. “Societies appear to be ...